Corset.



PATENTBD MARl 3, 190s.

A. J. LEGOTRB.

CORSET.

APPLICATION FILEDv 90T. 1. 190e.

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/12 aen/a No. 880,802. PATENTED MAR. 8, 1908 A. J. LEGOUTRE.

CORSET.

Muenzen FILED oUT.1, 190s.

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A. J. LBGOUTRE.

CORSET. APPLICATION FILED qoT. 1. 190e.

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UNITED STATES PATENT .Ormea AUGUSTEJ. LEerUTE, oF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR ,TOEOYAL'WOEOESTEE CORSET COMPANY, A CORPORATION or NMSSACHUSETTS,v

CORSET.

N o. 880,802. Specification of Letters Patent.- I 4Patented March 3, 1908..

, 'Applicata nea catter 1V. 1906. serial No. `336.824.

To all whom 'it may concern: Referring to the drawings z-Figure 1 ie a' Be it known that I, AUGUSTE JEAN LEooU- front view of a complete corset embodying TRE, a citizen of France, residing at Worcesmy improvements, showing the adjusting ter, in the county of Worcester and -Stateof flaps or bands connected. Fig. 2 shows a 5 Massachusetts, have invented .certain new detached-portion of the corset shown inFig. @o

and useful Improvements` in vCorsets', of .1, with the adjusting flaps or bands disconwhich the followin is a specifica-tion. nected. Fig. 3 corresponds to Fig. 2, but My invention re ates to improvements in shows a modified construction of the adjust@ corsets and articularly to that class of ing aps or bands. corsets termed) abdominal corsets, which are In the accompanying drawings, the corset e5 provided with means for adjusting the corset shown has the front sections 1, and the hip While on the wearer toflatten and reduce the sections 2.- The front sections 1 are provided abdomen, with the busks or front steels 1, in the usual The object of my invention is to provide a way. 3 are the hose Sup orter straps of the,

corsetfor women of stout figure, with full usualV construction, an attached to the 7e hips and large abdomen, which is complete in lower front edge of the corset, in the usual itself, but has supplemental parts,co1nprisin way. All of the above mentioned parts may two pairs ofwide flaps or bands, attached be of any ordinary construction. v v to the corset at4 theA lower front portion I will now describe lmy improvements,

thereof, and extendingin a substantially 'shown in Figs. 1 and 2. To each front seo- 75 horizontal plane, 'and in a plane substan# tion 1, at the lower )art thereof, and along tially parallel to the lower edge ofthe corset..- the inner edge of the 1busks, or front. steels 1, One of each pair of flaps is attached to the is attached a fla or band .4, preferably of front Or busk section,'and the other to the hip substantially wedge or triangular shape, and

or side section; and one flap of each pair has a extending' to a point on the corset substanso buckle attached thereto, andthe other is protially intermediate the front section 1 and vided with atongue' or reduced portion to the side or hip section 2.' Each flap 4jis engage the buckle. After the corset is in referably rovided at its free end with a place on the wearer, and the tongue or reliuckle 5, W lich may be of any ordinary oonduced end of one ofthe flaps of each pair is struction, but is preferably constructed to 85 inserted through the buckle of the other flap bind and hold the strap passing throu h it, of the pair; the wearerwith each hand grasps when it is drawn in one direction' ang the A the tongue or reduced end of one flap of each buckle is in one position, and to release it pair, and draws it through thev buckle, to' when the buckle 1s moved into an op osite iatten and reduce the abdomen. Y' position, in the usual way. Y A secon flap 90 In iny improved construction of the adjustor band 6 is attached to each lower part of ing means for flattening and reducing the the middle of the hip section, and is alsol abdomen, and the manner of attaching the preferably of substantially Wedge or triany saine tothe corset, 1 reduce and flatten the gular shape, with a free end or tongue 6 of 40 abdomen 'by drawing backwards the flaps oi. reduced width, which is adapted to be in- 95 bands on the front or abdominal sections of serted through and engage with. the buckle the corset, without drawing in or chan ing 5, so as ato extend rearwardly at' each. side of the shape ofthe hips, which will retain t eir the corset, as skhown in Fig. 1. j ordinary fullness without regard to the strain. It will'- be observed that the substantially on the front or abdominal sections of"'thetriangularstrapsor bands l have-tliel'iwide- 100 corset, and at the same time I do not produce front ends .attached to the bust sections of any folds or wrinkles in the corset, 'at the corset, and that the substantially triangular i lower front portion thereof, as -is ordinarily strapsor bands 6 have their wide rear ends the case in abdominal corsets provided with 4attached Vto the hip sections of the corset, so adjusting means, .but I leave the corset that these widepoints of attachment make 105 perfectly even and smooth over the abdomen. strong connection of thestraps or bands with andthe hips. the corset.so as to distribute' the strain on Myy 'invention consists in certain novel the straps or bands over considerable spaces features of construct-ion of luy-improvements, at their Apoints of attachment and these as will be hereinafter fully described. Wide straps or bands also serve to distribute" 1111- Cil the ctcnprpssing strain exerted on lthe abl a substantially horif/,lmtal plane, `and inl' a dominal and hip portions of the body 'of the l plane substantially' parallel to the lower 6l wearer over considerable areas at the points where it is most desirable to apply compressing pressure.

Each pair of straps or bands 4 and 'may be connected or buckled together before, or after the corset is put on ,by the wearer. Alfter the corset is put on and clasped or fastened in place, the wearer, to reduce and flatten the abdomen, draws back/wards each of the ends or tongues 6 through the attaching buckles 5, towards`the rear part 'of the corset. This acts to draw back the reaiiends of the two front flaps or bands 4, and t put 'a strain on the lower or abdominal part of the two front sections l of the corset,v .to draw them inwardly and backwardly toward the side or hip portions of the corset, antiv thus reduce and flatten the abdomen, without changing the shape of the hi ortion .of the corset, or reducing the hips o t 1e wearer. Each pair of straps or bands 4 and 6 are so made and attached to the corset that the 4line of draft or-strain on said straps or bands in adjusting thecorset is in a substantially horizontal plane, and in a plane substantially parallel tothe lower edge of the eorsetf the consequent result is that the abdomen is reduced or flattened without vraising 'it up,

i which is not the case where the line of draft or strain on the adjusting straps or bands is in an inclined or diagonal plane, as heretofore.

ln Fig. 3 is shown a modified construction of my improvements. In said Fig. 3, each front -llap or band 4 is made somewhat larger than the front Haps or bands 4, and has its tree end of reduced width,. to form a 'tongue 4M, to ass through the loop 7 on the rear liep or made somewhat smaller than the ilaps or bands 6. At the front of the corset, near the lower portion thereof, and near the inner edgev o the busk or steel 1, is attached a buckle 5a, the buckle lpart of which extends at an angle, Aand in a plane parallel to the plane of the loo 7, when the end 41, is passed through t e loop 7 and attached to the buckle 5a, as shown at the left in Fig. 3.

l5 y means of the loop 7 on the vflap Aor band 6, and the buckle 5, and the end 4a', passing through sald loo and buckle, I obtain a greater leverage lign' drawing back the front laps or bands 4, by drawing on the ends 4a thereof.

The advantages of my improvements will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art. The adjustable parts are adjusted in and 6a, which is preferablyv edge ofl the corset, and the adjustment of the abdominal sections to reduce and flatten the abdomen, is readily made bythe wearen after the corset is in place and secured on the wearer, by simplyA drawing backwards the ends ol the flaps or bands which passthrough the buckles.

It will be understood-that the details of construction ci my improvements may be varied il' desired, and they may be applied to and used in connection with any ordinary styleof corset. i

Havin thus described my invention, what I clairn as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a corset', of two pairs of adjusting bands or straps at the ower front part of thc corset, and extending` over the front and side sections, the iront strapbrband of each pair being otsu bstantially triangular shape with its Wide front Vend secured to a bus r section, and. the rear strap or band of each pair being also of substantially triangular sha e 'with its wide rear epd secured to the mid le part of a hip sers titan, and a strap and buckle connection for adjustably attaching the two parts ol' each pair of adjusting straps or bands together,

'and each pair of stra s or bands being so located on tbe corset t at the draft or strain on the same, in adjustinor the' corset, is4 in a substantially horizontal plane, and in a plane substantially parallel to the lower edge of the corset.

2. Theco'mbination with acorsetgv of two airs of adjusting bands 'or straps at the ower front portieri of the corset, the front strap or band of each pair being of sub stantially triangular sha )e and hai/ing its wide front portion attac ed to a bush section and provided with a loop or buckle, and the rear strap or band o f eacn pair bern of substantially triangular shape witch its wide rear end attached to a hip section and having a reduced end to pass through said loop or buckle, and each airof straps or bands being so located on t 1e corset that the draft or strain on the saine, in adjusting the lllll corset, will be in a substantially horizontal.

plane, and in a plane .substantially parallel tothe lower edge ot the corset.

A.; J. encourus..

. Witnesses:

JonN C. DEWEY, M. Haas. 

